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CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR HAS ‘CONCERNS’ ABOUT PSILOCYBIN
DECRIMINALIZATION, HIS OFFICE SAYS AS LAWMAKERS PLAN FOR 2024 REFORM

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Kyle Jaeger

As advocates renew their push to decriminalize psilocybin mushrooms in
Connecticut, the Democratic governor who signed marijuana legalization into law
evidently has concerns about moving toward broader psychedelics reform.

Lawmakers and activists held an informational forum on Wednesday, discussing the
therapeutic potential of substances such as psilocybin and potential pathways to
allow for regulated access.

But as supporters plan for the reintroduction of a bill to decriminalize
psilocybin—an earlier version of which passed the House but did not advance in
the Senate last year—a spokesperson for Gov. Ned Lamont (D) is signaling that it
may face a major barrier to enactment.

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“The governor has concerns about broad decriminalization of mushrooms,”
spokesperson David Bednarz told The Hartford Courant. “However, it is a bit too
early to speculate because a bill has not been filed yet, and we have no
language to review.”

As the prior version to decriminalize possession of psilocybin advanced last
year, Lamont also reportedly threatened to veto it, despite having championed
and signed into law legislation to legalize cannabis in 2021.



Lamont signed a large-scale budget bill in 2022 that includes provisions to set
the state up to provide certain patients with access to psychedelic-assisted
treatment using substances like MDMA and psilocybin.

Prior to that, he also signed separate legislation in 2021 that required the
state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services to create a task force
to study the therapeutic potential of psilocybin mushrooms.

But broad decriminalization of so-called “magic mushrooms,” apparently, may be a
bridge too far from his perspective.

The threat of possible resistance from the governor isn’t stopping advocates
from preparing for psychedelics reform in the 2024 session, however. With the
House and Senate set to reconvene next month, Wednesday’s informational forum,
which was hosted by a lawmaker and took place inside the legislative building,
was meant to restart the conversation.



“We encourage the governor to watch our forum and review the bill from last year
that passed through the House, and articulate what his specific concerns are so
that we can address them openly and transparently,” Jason Ortiz, policy director
of Connecticut for Accessible Psychedelic Medicine who also serves as director
of strategic initiatives for the Last Prisoner Project, told Marijuana Moment.





“Our community made it clear yesterday that we are ready, willing and able to
address any concerns, and we look forward to meeting with the governor to assist
him in passing a sensible psilocybin decrim bill,” Ortiz, who organized the
forum, said.

Several lawmakers appeared at the meeting, expressing optimism about the
prospect of advancing the issue in the 2024 session and potentially moving
beyond simple decriminalization.

“It feels like right now in my lifetime, this is an all-time low in mental
health, so I’ve always been curious about alternative nature-based therapies,”
Rep. David Michel (D), who hosted the forum, said. “In our world as elected
officials, I believe it is up to us to do our due diligence and stay current
with the world of science.”



Rep. Anne Hughes (D) said the purpose of the meeting, which involved testimony
from advocates and experts across the country, is so that lawmakers “can have
the latest expertise in an ancient plant-based medicine that we so desperately
need.”

Rep. Nicole Klarides-Ditria (R), ranking member on the Public Health Committee,
added that she was looking forward to hearing from experts to “see the reasons
why we need to bring this drug into Connecticut” and learn more about “the
benefits of making it more readily accessible to the people that need it the
most.”

“That’s our job here is to hear all sides of the story, so we can go back to our
constituents and our fellow legislators and give them the facts—just the
scientific facts as to why this will help many, many people hopefully in the
state of Connecticut,” she said.


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Participants in the information forum also featured experts such as New Approach
PAC’s Jared Moffat, who is actively working on an effort to enact psychedelics
legalization in Massachusetts, Harvard Medical School’s Peter Grinspoon and
Kevin Matthews, a national leader in the movement who helmed the campaign to
make Denver the first city in the country to decriminalize psilocybin in 2019.



The Connecticut governor isn’t the only obstacle for psychedelics reform
supporters in the state. House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora (R) said this
week that “Democrats are creating a culture of drugs” that started with cannabis
and is “going to transition to magic mushrooms.”

“Next, it will be cocaine and heroin,” he said, according to The Hartford
Courant, adding that psilocybin “should be done under a doctor’s care, not under
self-medication.”

“This is just a veiled attempt to continue to decriminalize illicit drug use
under the guise that there’s some medicinal value to it,” Candelora said.

Separately, a Connecticut lawmaker also introduced different legislation last
session that would have appropriated an unspecified amount of state funds to the
Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services for the current fiscal year
to establish a “psychedelic-assisted therapy pilot program.”



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